Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751321AbWJAGxm (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:53:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751346AbWJAGxl (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:53:41 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:27044 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbWJAGxl (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:53:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17695.26000.2548.503368@samba.org> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 16:52:00 +1000 To: David Lang Cc: James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: References: <1159498900.3880.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <17692.46192.432673.743783@samba.org> <1159515086.3880.79.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <17692.57123.749163.204216@samba.org> <1159559443.9543.23.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Reply-To: tridge@samba.org From: tridge@samba.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 944 Lines: 21 David, > this is especially relavent for companies that have formerly been willing to act > as mirrors for free software projects. now the act of mirroring debian means > that any patent they own could be comprimised by a random debian developer > adding a patch to any of 19000 packages that implements that patent I'd be interested to hear what the debian legal people think of this, but my reading of the GPLv2 is that mirror sites are already effectively granting a patent license by distributing GPLv2 programs. Maybe this has already been discussed to death somewhere else and some solid legal conclusion has been come to? If so, can someone please send me a link :) Cheers, Tridge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/